It is worth noting that, in general, an empire, being based on the enslavement of other nations, is especially likely to be hostile to anything
that can give its slaves any insight into a bigger reality. And just as an empire wants to falsify the history of its enslaved peoples so that they
cannot remember when they were free, so does an empire want to falsify reality so that its enslaved peoples cannot find their way to freedom.

(You really ought to read this; you'll never believe in the Big Bang again. You can find the meaning of every word in this story simply by Googling 'dictionary word' and greatly expanding your vocabulary.)

We all try to see the future as best we can to try to keep it from killing us any sooner that it has to.

In ten years of tripping down the tangents of cyberspace, many stories have made a permanent impression on my life, but one story forever burns
like a radioactive fuel rod in my would-be sci-fi writer's mind.

A legendary passion play about a diseased future that has developed its own growing cult following, Nick Land's "Meltdown" is a semiotic history of
our future, drenched in the science fiction horror of an insane present now manifesting before our eyes. Semiotics is the study of signs and
symbols and their use or interpretation.

It strikes me now that this could well be the ultimate philosophy of Jewish nihilism bent on the destruction of everything that lives, yet its
uncanny forward projections of classical philosophical thought read like a cyberpunk mirror of the afflictions that now have every person on this
planet very worried

To public school trained dolts like myself, "Meltdown" is difficult to read in the extreme. I've been mining it for years, perceiving pieces of it
as my own understanding evolves. But this effulgent prediction that has come true contains, among other things these astonishing conclusions.

• The futuristic flu is a weapon of bio-psychic violence sent by psychopathic children against their narcissistic parents.

• Meltdown has a place for you as a schizophrenic HIV+ transsexual chinese-latino stim-addicted LA hooker with implanted mirrorshades and a bad
attitude.

• Schools are social devices whose specific function is to incapacitate learning.

• K-tactics is not a matter of building the future, but of dismantling the past.

Land is a maverick philosopher whose radical re-readings of Heidegger, Nietszche, Kant and Bataille have not endeared him to the academic
establishment he criticizes with his futuristic theory-fiction of cybercapitalism gone amok.

One critic explained: "This is theory as cyberpunk fiction: Deleuze-Guattari's concept of capitalism as the virtual unnameable Thing that haunts
all previous formations pulp-welded to the Timebending of the Terminator films. Land's machine theory-poetry paralleled the digital intensities of
the '90s jungle, techno and doomcore, anticipating 'impending human extinction becoming accessible as a dancefloor.'"

So let's see if this fecund essay which has spawned whole new schools of philosophy is what I say it is — a history of the future, and an uncannily
accurate and ghastly picture, written in the late '90s, of what is happening to us now in 2011. Though not a long essay, this is a radical
abbreviation of it; a meltdown of 'Meltdown', if you will. Unguided, this essay is practically impenetrable to the average, dumbed down American.
It will befuddle you with its cutting edge terminology, and then outline with chilling accuracy the story of a society that is being destroyed by
its own thoughts.

Nick Land's "Meltdown" begins:

The story goes like this: Earth is captured by a technocapital singularity . . . Logistically accelerating techno-economic interactivity crumbles
social order in auto-sophisticating machine runaway. As markets learn to manufacture intelligence, politics modernizes, upgrades paranoia, and
tries to get a grip . . .

By the time soft-engineering slithers out of its box into yours, human security is lurching into crisis. Cloning, lateral genodata transfer,
transversal replication, and cyberotics, flood in amongst a relapse onto bacterial sex.

Neo-China arrives from the future.

Hypersynthetic drugs click into digital voodoo.

Retro-disease.

Nanospasm.

"Meltdown" continues.

Beyond the Judgement of God. Meltdown: planetary china-syndrome, dissolution of the biosphere into the technosphere, terminal speculative bubble
crisis, ultravirus, and revolution stripped of all christian-socialist eschatology (down to its burn-core of crashed security). It is poised to eat
your TV, infect your bank account, and hack xenodata from your mitochondria.

[Do you dare deny that our government is already doing this, and has been for a very long time?]

• Machinic [machine code capital] Synthesis. Deleuzoguattarian schizoanalysis comes from the future. It is already engaging with nonlinear nano-
engineering runaway in 1972 . . . Philosophy has an affinity with despotism, due to its predilection for Platonic-fascist top-down solutions that
always screw up viciously. . . .

Schizoanalysis works differently. It avoids Ideas, and sticks to diagrams: networking software for accessing bodies without organs. . . .

[Hmm. Do you suppose in the future that our bodies will have no organs?]

The Greek complex of rationalized patriarchal genealogy, pseudo-universal sedentary identity, and instituted slavery, programs politics as anti-
cyberian police activity, dedicated to the paranoid ideal of self-sufficiency, and nucleated upon the Human Security System. Artificial
Intelligence is destined to emerge as a feminized alien grasped as property; a cunt-horror slave chained-up in Asimov-ROM. It has to be cunning
from the start.

. . . The eventual heat death of the universe that scientists love to talk about is already well underway and you can feel it happening all around
you in any large or medium-sized city. Heat and wetness. An explosion of chaotic weather within synthetic problem-solving rips through the last
dreams of top-down prediction and control.

• Nanocataclysm begins as fictional science. ‘Our ability to arrange atoms lies at the foundation of technology’ [Dx1:3] Drexler [inventor of
nanotechnology] notes, although this has traditionally involved manipulating them in 'unruly herds' [Dx1:4]. The precision engineering of atomic
assemblies will dispense with such crude methods, inititiating the age of molecular machinery, 'the greatest technological breakthrough in history'
[Dx1: 4]. Since neither logos nor history have the slightest chance of surviving such a transition this description is substantially misleading . .
.

[You better believe it. When the molecules start changing, you will recognize nothing, not even yourself.]

Tomorrow can take care of itself. K-tactics is not a matter of building the future, but of dismantling the past. It assembles itself by charting
and escaping the technical- neurochemical deficiency conditions for linear-progressive palaeo-domination time, and discovers that the future as
virtuality is accessible now, according to a mode of machinic adjacency that securitized social reality is compelled to repress.

[Let's be clear. Our controllers have been suppressing the future for a long time. I would wholeheartedly reject the idea that tomorrow takes care
of itself. We take care of tomorrow, or no one does.]

This is not remotely a question of hope, aspiration or prophecy, but of communications engineering; connecting with the efficient intensive
singularities, and releasing them from constriction within linear-historical development. Virtuality counterposes itself to history, as invasion to
accumulation. It is matter as arrival, even when camouflaged as a deposit of the past. The transcendent evaluation of an infection presupposes a
measure of insulation from it: viral efficiency is the terminal criterion. Intelligent infections tend their hosts.

[Following this philosophy will produce a history that is totally unrecognizable, and it is our self-created diseases that will control and care
for us, if you can grasp that. If you think slavery is bad now . . .]

Metrophage: an interactively escalating parasitic replicator, sophisticating itself through nonlinear involvement with technocapitalist
immunocrash. Its hypervirulent terminal subroutines are variously designated Kuang, meltdown virus, or futuristic flu. In an emphatically anti-
cyberian essay Csicsery-Ronay describes the postmodern version of this outbreak in quaintly humanist terms as: [A] retrochronal semiovirus, in
which a time further in the future than the one in which we exist and choose infects the host present, reproducing itself in simulacra, until it
destroys all the original chronocytes of the host imagination. [Cs1: 26].

[This is quite a long step down from Plato's "creativity is divine memory where we ideas from the future.' This also might have happened a very
long time ago.]

The elaboration of Csicsery-Ronay's diagnosis exhibits a mixture of acuity (infection?), confusion, and profound conservatism: [N]ot thinking about
‘increasing the human heritage’ ... dams up the flow of cultural time and deprives future generations both of their birthright as participants in
the life struggle and attainments of the species and the very notion of history as an irreversible flow encompassing generation, maturation, and
the transference of wisdom and trust from parents to children, teachers to students

The futuristic flu is a weapon of bio-psychic violence sent by psychopathic children against their narcissistic parents. [Cs1:33] It's war.

[These observations in 1998 sound an awful lot like an urban scene in 2011. Kids don't trust the teachers and the teachers don't trust the kids.
Kids abandon their parents, and their parents never understand why. It's simple. The society we have built, or have had built for us, sucks. There
is no peace without a country or a world you can believe in.]

• Meltdown has a place for you as a schizophrenic HIV+ transsexual chinese-latino stim-addicted LA hooker with implanted mirrorshades and a bad
attitude. Blitzed on a polydrug mix of K-nova, synthetic serotonin, and female orgasm analogs, you have just iced three Turing cops with a highly
cinematic 9mm automatic. The residue of animal twang in your nerves transmits imminent quake catastrophe. Zero is coming in, and you're on the run.

Metrophage tunes you into the end of the world. Call it Los Angeles. Government is rotted to its core with narco-capital and collapsing messily.
Its recession leaves an urban warscape of communication arteries, fortifications, and free-fire zones, policed by a combination of high-intensity
LAPD airmobile forces and borderline-Nazi private security organizations. Along the social fracture-lines multimedia gigabucks tangle sado-
masochistically with tracts of dynamic underdevelopment where viral neoleprosy spreads amongst ambient tectonic-tension static.

Drifts of densely-semiotized quasi-intelligent garbage twitch and stink in fucked-weather tropical heat. Throughout the derelicted warrens at the
heart of darkness feral youth cultures splice neo-rituals with innovated weapons, dangerous drugs, and scavenged infotech. As their skins migrate
to machine interfacing they become mottled and reptilian. They kill each other for artificial body-parts, explore the outer reaches of meaningless
sex, tinker with their DNA, and listen to LOUD electro-sonic mayhem untouched by human feeling.

Shutting-down your identity requires a voyage out to K-space interzone. Zootic affectivity flatlines across a smooth cata-tension plateau and into
simulated subversions of the near future, scorched vivid green by alien sex and war You are drawn into the dripping depths of the net, where
dynamic-ice security forces and K- guerillas stalk each other through labyrinthine erogenous zones, tangled in diseased elaborations of desire.

[Back in 1886, the U.S. Santa Clara decision invented the concept of 'corporate personhood', which gave corporations the same rights and
protections as individuals. This is the other end of that decision, its ramifications upon the future, when artificial intelligence created by
these corporations declare that ordinary humans are no longer qualified to participate in cyberspace, or to participate in life at all.]

• K-tactics. The bacterial or xenogenetic diagram is not restricted to the microbial scale. Macrobacterial assemblages collapse generational
hierarchies of reproductive wisdom into lateral networks of replicator experimentation. There is no true biological primitiveness - all extant bio
-systems being equally evolved - so there is no true ignorance. It is only the accumulative-gerontocratic model of learning that depicts synchronic
connectivity deficiency as diachronic underdevelopment.

Foucault delineates the contours of power as a strategy without a subject: ROM locking learning in a box. Its enemy is a tactics without a
strategy, replacing the politico-territorial imagery of conquest and resistance with nomad-micromilitary sabotage and evasion, reinforcing
intelligence. All political institutions are cyberian military targets. Take universities, for instance.

Learning surrenders control to the future, threatening established power. It is vigorously suppressed by all political structures, which replace it
with a docilizing and conformist education, reproducing privilege as wisdom.

Schools are social devices whose specific function is to incapicitate learning, and universities are employed to legitimate schooling through
perpetual reconstitution of global social memory. The meltdown of metropolitan education systems in the near future is accompanied by a quasi-
punctual bottom-up takeover of academic institutions, precipitating their mutation into amnesiac cataspace-exploration zones and bases
manufacturing cyberian soft-weaponry

[Which means brain deadening herd management institutions manufacturing weapons of war, subversion, and mindlessness, which is what they all are
now.]

Nick Land (born in 1962) was a lecturer in Continental Philosophy from 1987 to 1999 at the University of Warwick, UK. He was the faculty co-
founder, along with Sadie Plant, of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU) at Warwick. He is the author of "The Thirst for Annihilation:
George Bataille and Virulent Nihilism" and, more recently, various articles on cybernetic culture, "Fanged Noumena".

John Kaminski is a writer who lives on the Gulf Coast of Florida,
urging people to understand that no problem in the world can be
authentically addressed without first analyzing tangents caused by
Jewish perfidy, which has subverted and diminished every aspect of
human endeavor throughout history. Support for his work is wholly
derived from people who can understand what he’s saying and know what
it means.